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The AE Song of the Week:

Who doesn't know what I'm talking about
Who's never left home, who's never struck out
To find a dream and a life of their own
A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone

Many precede and many will follow
A young girl's dreams no longer hollow
It takes the shape of a place out west
But what it holds for her, she hasn't yet guessed

She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the high stakes

She traveled this road as a child
Wide eyed and grinning, she never tired
But now she won't be coming back with the rest
If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test

She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the high stakes

She knows the high stakes

As her folks drive away, her dad yells, "Check the oil!"
Mom stares out the window and says, "I'm leaving my girl"
She said, "It didn't seem like that long ago"
When she stood there and let her own folks know

She needed wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the high stakes

She knows the high stakes
She knows the highest stakes (Wide open spaces)
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes (Wide open spaces)

"Wide Open Spaces" by The Chicks from the album "Wide Open Spaces" (1998)*. Written by Susan Gibson. Publisher: BMG Rights Management. Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind. Watch the Official Music Video video here. 

*This song was written by Susan Gibson, who was lead singer of a Texas-based band called The Groobees. She wrote the tune back in 1993 in a spirit of rebellion during her first return home from the University of Montana for Christmas break. "My mom probably said something like, 'What time did you get home last night, honey?' Whatever it was rubbed me the wrong way," Gibson told The Montanan. "I sat down at the kitchen table and wrote furiously for twelve minutes, and then I went and did something else. I forgot all about it." The lyrics were so specific to Gibson's own experience, including lines about her dad warning her to check the oil in her car, she was hesitant about giving away such a personal song. Then she heard the Dixie Chicks' version: "It made me bawl my eyes out. It was so beautiful—it had this stunning musicianship and very professional production. I could still see my handwriting on the page, and here was this gorgeous recording of it." Lloyd Maines, father of Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines, worked with The Groobees, and brought the song to the Chicks. The Groobees recorded their version in 1999. Thom Oliphant helmed the music video, which intercuts touring footage with the girls singing in open fields of wildflowers as well as performing at Winter Park, Colorado's annual West Fest. In a Songfacts interview, Oliphant recalled: "That song probably moved them from big clubs to arenas over the course of that year, so we were just out documenting. A lot of that stuff was shot without a clock ticking. You're on a bus and we would shoot some stuff, and then it all was woven together with a couple of big days of shooting out around Denver. It made it look like it was all about the same time, but it wasn't." The video was named the Country Music Association's Video of the Year in 1999. The Groobees broke up a couple of years after this song became a hit. Susan Gibson, who collected the bulk of the royalties as the tune's sole writer, has since carved a career for herself as a solo artist, but still delights in hearing fans talk about the song: "Because the Dixie Chicks made that song so huge, I have enjoyed the look on people's faces when they hear that I wrote that song. About 80 percent of the time, somebody has a cool story attached to it about leaving home, getting married, getting divorced, and breaking down in Moab, Utah. 19 percent of the time it's like, 'Oh! My mom loooooves that song!' And there's 1 percent out there that are like, 'I don't really listen to music.' That's OK. It's the stories that I hear back from people that put a face to the huge numbers associated with that song." The song spent four weeks at #1 on the country chart. Wide Open Spaces earned a Grammy Award for Best Country Album in 1999. (Knowledge courtesy of Songfacts.com)